The occasion is a decade in the making - the culmination of Boeing's efforts to develop a spacecraft worthy of ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
Live coverage of the event will stream on NASA channels beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET Monday, according to the space agency.Boeing's spaceflight program may reach a significant milestone with the launch of its Starliner spacecraft, carrying two NASA astronauts to orbit.
Veteran NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will be on board Monday's mission, riding Starliner to the International Space Station for a weeklong stay. The two Starliner astronauts have waited years for the spacecraft to be deemed ready to carry crew. After several astronauts rotated in and out of assignments on Starliner's Crew Flight Test, Wilmorein 2020. NASA moved Williams onto this flight in 2022 after initially assigning her in 2018 to a later Starliner mission.
Notably, the first Starliner test mission, flown without crew in late 2019, was riddled with missteps. The vehicle misfired in orbit, a symptom of software problems that included a coding error that set an internal clock off by 11 hours.
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